Re: [Pythoncard-users] I'm learning - added .rsrc awareness to 'FindFiles'

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

At 14:46 16/09/2004 -0700, Kevin Altis wrote:


>I'm glad you were able to work this out. I haven't had resourceEditor 
>support in findfiles previously, because usually I want to edit the 
>.rsrc.py files using the codeEditor to make some quick change. However, I 
>think it would be a good option that could be toggled on and off, so I'll 
>look at adding that. In the meantime, all you need to do is a simple 
>string check, in fact, I'm not sure why I'm not doing this in the existing 
>code, except maybe the current way seemed cleaner than 
>filename.endswith('.py) or filename.endswith('.pyw').

Well, os.path goes to all the trouble of giving us a splitext function, so 
it may be a good idea to use it. Some day, someone may find a file system 
that uses something other than "." as the separator ....

>         if filename.endswith('.rsrc.py'):
>             program = os.path.join("..", "resourceEditor", 
> "resourceEditor.py")
>         elif os.path.splitext(filename)[-1] in ['.py', '.pyw']:
>         ...
>Obviously, you can put the additional code in to check for a 
>resourceEditor.pyw file, but the main thing is to just use the endswith 
>string method and make sure that check is done before the .py/.pyw check.

You could go one step further and do
    name,ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
    if ext in ['py', 'pyw]]:
        if name.endswith(".rsrc") then
                resource editor
        else:
                code editor
   else:
      text editor

(Hmmm - or get really carried away and put in a table of file types and 
programs to use to open them with - with a menu option to create/edit 
associations, and .... :)

Which brings me to a real question ... why   .rsrc.py  rather than  .rsrc ?
That way you could have associated .rsrc with the resource editor in the OS.

-- Alex.